Sermons & Divrei Torah

On Pride Shabbat, Rabbi Shirley Idelson wove together Miriam's story, Jewish tradition, and her own experience to explore belonging, resilience, and how loss can open the way to new possibilities for ourselves and our communities.

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In his final Shabbat kavannah as Rosh Kehillah, Rabbi Roly reflected on the mysterious ritual of the red heifer and what it teaches about humility, belonging, and resisting the urge to divide the world into insiders and outsiders.

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In this week’s D’var Torah, Rabbi Becca Weintraub explores the tension between envy and gratitude at the heart of Parashat Korah. Through the examples of Korah, Moshe, and Aaron, she asks what it would mean to live as though we truly had enough—and to find joy not only in our own blessings, but in the blessings of others.

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Rabbi Felicia Sol explores how the trauma of October 7 has challenged our capacity to tolerate disagreement. Jewish tradition, she argues, calls us not to certainty, but to the sacred work of engaging with difference.

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In a world obsessed with productivity and optimization, Senior Rabbinic Fellow Joe Blumberg reminds us that our deepest purpose is something far more human: to help blessing flow freely from one person to another.

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